Reflections on Day 1 Diarmaid Lawlor, A+DS
#designskillsscotland2012
Outline
Reflection on presentations Reflection on site visit
Why university town?
Reflection on university tour
Scenarios
Format for the day
Reflections on Day 1 presentations….
Christina
• Connections: spatial and narratives [history/river] • Credibility
Joost
• Professional duty: impact oriented, social focus • Civic institutional framework: connect people
Conor
• Conversation platform: reducing barriers • Communities propose and evaluate
Ton
• Patterns, islands, connections: be human • Scales: fixed frameworks/originality
Rogier
• Place as learning playground, participative, propositional • Collaboration, re-think assets, intensify relationships
Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.
Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.
Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.
Reflections on Day 1 presentations‌.
Reflections on site visit‌. Services and assets Communities
Creators/makers Re-thinking existing spaces
Participation
Reflections on site visit‌. Services and assets Communities
Creators/makers Re-thinking existing spaces
town hall Gaeity
Participation
Reflections on university visit….
scale
programme
talent
• Regional focus: regional university] • Mixed role of place • Scale and diversity • Differentiation • Attracting students & retaining staff: people connections • Markets/production: Big cities…..
facilities
• Quality and utilisation • Connections with communities beyond the learner
The town
• “A problem for us all” • Institutional and knowledge connections: library
Reflections on university town‌. RESOURCES: [finance, people, knowledge etc]
connections
participation
production
SPACES
ASSETS: [buildings, sites etc]
TOWN CENTRE LEARNING
TWO DESTINATIONS
LINKED DESTINATIONS
OVERLAPPING SPACES AND PLACES
Symposium format: DAY 2
Workshop 2
Sharing learning
Workshop 3
Plenary
Actions for change • Start with output of workshop 1 • Spatial focus: where and why? • Social focus; who and what?
After the symposium • Support to apply learning: what, who, how?
Priorities • Focus down narrative • Prepare presentation Present and discuss • Brief discussion by Scottish Futures Trust • Each group presents, group feedback • Facilitated discussion: actions and priorities • Learning action plan